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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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WordPress 5 Cookbook

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By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Monetizing the site with custom ad spots

Advertising your products or services as well as third-party products or services is one of the most simple and commonly used ways of monetizing a site. We can use Google AdSense, other ad networks, or custom ad spots to let others pay to advertise on our site. Creating custom advertisements within the site is the ideal method because we can earn 100% of the revenue without paying commissions to ad networks. Also, we can advertise any type of content in any part of the site without being limited to the rules applied by third-party ad networks.

We have the ability to easily display ads on the site by placing ad images and links in the site files or default widgets. However, ad spot management plugins make it easier for the site owner to create and display ads conditionally in different places without using any kind of code. Also, these...